If terror groups are to be defeated it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

I trust that your readers will not construe my words to mean that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise it is said and principles should never be compromised.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer lose endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life.

I never thought of losing but now that it' s happened the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me a big part of it is information knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

In formal logic a contradiction is the signal of defeat but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community and especially the counterterrorism community is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way not to evade destiny as the ordinary people try to do but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history and Europe has helped write ours.

Love is never defeated and I could add the history of Ireland proves it.